Posted on 11/23/2016 5:25:44 PM PST by markomalley
With all the drama surrounding Reddit, from debates over free speech to its messy game of musical chairs among executives, it's understandable some users might want to leave.
Now they've found a place to go. It's called Voat (rhymes with goat), and it says it's fixed all those things people don't like about Reddit.
The site launched in April 2014 and was originally called WhoaVerse. It started as a part-time project of a third-year Swedish college student and now the site claims to be run by two students who are "currently studying computer science and economics at University of Zurich in Switzerland." One of them is called Atif, according to the "About" page on the site.
Voat users posted in relative obscurity until a month ago, when Reddit's management banned five noxious forums from its service, including one devoted to making fun of overweight people.
Fear over increasing control from Reddit's administrators, who are attempting to turn the site into a large, successful and profitable company, appears to have pushed swaths of passionate Reddit users, known as Redditors, to Voat.co. "Due to the recent interest generated by the online community," the site tells visitors, "this has evolved from hobby into full-fledged desire to create the website that will become the place where you can "have your say."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
I am posting it because those of us who may be following the #pizzagate developments may have better luck over there since Reddit banned the topic.
Look here for a new development over at reddit-
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekwoa/breaking_the_ceo_of_reddit_has_admitted_to/
and there are a lot more threads about this over there....
So glad these other platforms are getting competition.
The pedestrians marched over. (Centa 100.) This Sh!tstom is creating a Trillapede. Uhuh, be afraid, in fact be petrified. Really afraid with assh0les puckered. A trillion legs. You can not stop us. Your end is nigh.
Warning to the Globalists.
GAB and VOAT are the first salvos in a new ‘war’ for -not ON- free speech on the Internet. IF I had facebook stock, I’d be selling it right about now...
Sorry, Gab is DOA with that dumb frog logo. Hint, hint.
Mibbit has done well for years as an IRC platform. It has a frog in the logo.
Opinions on Gab as an alternative to Twitter?
” IF I had facebook stock, I’d be selling it right about now...”
You can sell it short.
I'm on both (@markomalley).
Twitter is a pain in the butt because of censorship, shadowbanning, and outright suspending people in an unbalanced fashion. But there are a LOT of folks there, so it has the volume to stay interesting.
I like the 300 character limit on Gab and that it's a whole lot easier to post images from the 'net. But there's not really enough activity to keep it engaging. But it's getting better.
I look forward to a good mobile app to be published for Gab and perhaps an API so that a 3rd party app (like how Twitterfall used to be) can integrate the two.
Point is, now that an OBVIOUS need [for truly uncensored Internet babble] has become apparent, dozens of entrepreneurs will strive to meet that need.
facebook, twitter and perhaps reddit have already taken biased stances; if some 'upstart' can grab their disgruntled users, those 'denizens' will be toast (like MySpace) in a couple of years.
The fact that Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, are all censoring the news about pizzagate, and starting a “fake news” meme, demonstrate that
1) the scandal is getting too close for comfort for some powerful persons; and
2)too few persons have too much control over our gates to the NET and public expression
There are plenty of American companies worth investing in, longterm; Internet start-ups have always been a gamble too rich for my blood. (Except for that risk I took when eBay went public! What a windfall!)
Totally concur.
Selling short is not investing in a company - it’s the opposite, it’s showing no confidence in a company, and making money off of their collapse.
But you do see that one must BUY (invest) in order to sell short, yes? The Brits call it a "put option" --purchase X shares at ten bob and then exercise your option to sell at a pound; very tricky to pull off without insider information, but it can be done.
No matter in this case, as facebook has become a moribund leviathan and will sink under its own weight by 2020.
No you don’t need to buy anything to sell short. You put up margin, borrow the shares and sell them.
A put option is very different. You pay a premium to buy the option. It has an expiration date.
Didn’t see the voat link, so adding it here for everyone who might be interested:
“But you do see that one must BUY (invest) in order to sell short, yes?”
NO. You don’t have to buy the shares in order to sell short. You simply put in an order to sell the shares short, but you have to have enough money in your account to cover (buy the shares) in case the price of the shares goes up.
You can also buy “put options” or sell “call options” on the company and achieve the same end - make money on a company going down.
No mobile app yet, as far as I can tell. That is a real shortcoming.
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